The ‘hairy hands’ of Dartmoor
In the early 20th-century, a spate of bizarre accidents took place on a lonesome stretch of road in Devon, England which crosses Dartmoor. Those who survived reported seeing a pair…
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The unsolved disappearance of Jennifer Kesse
Jennifer Kesse was 24 years old when she vanished in 2006 in Orlando. Jennifer’s car was missing, and her condo looked, according to family members, as if Jennifer had gotten…
Rosalia Lombardo: The mystery of the “Blinking Mummy”
Even though mummification is still practised in some distant cultures, it is uncommon in the Western world. Rosalia Lombardo, a two-year-old girl, died in 1920 from an intensified case of…
The Hammersmith Nude Murders: Who was Jack the Stripper?
Jack the Stripper was a copy cat killer who terrored London between 1964 and 1965, imitating the infamous London serial killer, Jack the Ripper. Jack the Stripper, however, did not…
Who was the mysterious ‘Man in The Iron Mask’?
The legend of the Man in The Iron Mask goes something like this: Until his death in 1703, a prisoner was held for over three decades across France, including at the Bastille, all while wearing an iron mask, concealing his identity.
The 1986 disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh is still unsolved
In 1986, a real estate agent named Suzy Lamplugh went missing while she was at work. On the day of her disappearance, she was scheduled to show a client called “Mr. Kipper” around a property. She has remained missing ever since.
The dead firefighter Francis Leavy’s ghostly handprint remains an unsolved mystery
For twenty years a mysterious handprint was visible on a Chicago fire station’s window. It could not be cleaned off, buffed off or scraped off. Many believed it belonged to…
The unsolved 1987 slaying of Dardeen family still haunts Illinois
One of the most horrifying murders in US crime history was the gruesome slaying of an entire family in Illinois in November 1987. The mom was pregnant and gave birth…
Saturday Mthiyane: The child of the wild
On a Saturday in 1987, a five-year-old bedraggled boy was discovered living among the monkeys near Tugela River in the wilds of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. This feral child (also called wild…
The mysterious death of Karen Silkwood: What really happened to the Plutonium whistleblower?
Karen Silkwood was a nuclear plant worker and whistleblower at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site plant near Crescent, Oklahoma. On November 13, 1974, she set out to meet a…
